Martin Crane is a composer for film and television based in Brooklyn, New York. His score for RAFA, Zachary Heinzerling's four-part documentary series about tennis icon Rafael Nadal, premieres on Netflix in May 2026. The score blends traditional orchestration with textural sound design — an approach that reflects the range of Crane's broader work.


Crane's recent credits include The Antisocial Network (Netflix, 2024), Stolen Youth (Hulu, 2023), Black Gold (Paramount+, 2022), and multiple episodes of PBS Frontline. His first narrative feature, Loved One, directed by Elizabeth Chatelain and produced by Oscar-nominated producer Paul Mezey, was released in 2026. He has scored numerous short films premiering at Cannes, Sundance, SXSW, and Tribeca, and his early work includes music supervision on Cutie and the Boxer, the Academy Award–nominated documentary by Heinzerling.


Crane came to film scoring from songwriting. Under the name Brazos, he released records on Dead Oceans and Autobus in the early 2010s, drawing reviews from The Guardian, FADER, and Interview Magazine, and accumulating over ten million streams. His solo instrumental record Physical Therapy appeared on Inscape in 2015. He continues to record and release music under both names.

His scoring voice draws on the sonic traditions of composers like Jóhann Jóhannsson, Mica Levi, Oliver Coates, and Hania Rani — work that treats texture and restraint as seriously as melody. He works primarily from a hand-built studio in Dumbo, and has collaborated repeatedly with directors including Zachary Heinzerling, Gabrielle Schonder, Elizabeth Chatelain, and Giorgio Angelini.